TODAY'S OPINION

Simon Aldous’s take on the big architectural stories of the week: Schumacher bids to remove Zaha will executors • Museum tender process run by one of the bidders • Grenfell Inquiry appoints replacement expert witness

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The latest AJ features building studies of four housing projects: Ordnance Road in Enfield by Peter Barber Architects; Hortsley retirement housing in East Sussex by RCKa; Barbauld Road in Stoke Newington by Stephen Taylor Architects; and Anderston Regeneration Phases 4 and 5 in Glasgow by Collective Architecture. PLUS The AJ’s Parenting Survey shows architecture is struggling to adapt to a flexible ...

a life in architecture - kirsty wark

15 November, 2001

Barry Gasson's Burrell Collection building (pictured) is Glasgow's hidden gem, says Newsnight presenter Kirsty Wark. 'It is an incredibly restful building - the mix of modern materials and the lovely warm pink Scottish stone. I love the way you sweep straight in through the medieval doorway, and the wonderful interplay between light, space and the artefacts. It houses the collection brilliantly, despite Burrell's insistence that his own rooms were recreated there. They are the dullest ...

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